Exploring Sound Tracks

[NOIRTRASH]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfVSNKFq1cU

MAX STEINER used Frederick Delius' FLORIDA SUITE to compose the GONE WITH THE WIND soundtrack.

Delius was exiled at his parents Florida plantation, and there he composed THE FLORIDA SUITE.

 

[NOIRTRASH]

I expected sound tracks to ve above the heads of most at AH. It is.

99 AHers outta 100 fret about scores, comments, posting delays, and safe spaces. I've never seen HOW CAN I WRITE BETTER? at AH. LIT is McDonalds of erotica.

Soun tracks, as I'm told, is the bizness of capturing the tone, mood, and affect of prose translated into action.

 

[NOIRTRASH]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2fbOAyNOpM

STAR DUST Hoagey Carnychael.

 

[jezzilee]

Come on. I l think that most everything has been done before

dont you?

oh heck, forgot.

for some reason, i am on ignore

 

[NOIRTRASH]

Come on. I l think that most everything has been done before

dont you?

oh heck, forgot.

for some reason, i am on ignore

To go on IGGY you gotta matter first.

 

[Desiremakesmeweak]

There are a lot of people who do think that 'everything has been done before.' And there are a lot (well, a FEW, actually, because it takes talent to be at this level) of top-ranked concert pianists who will tell you that the day film sound track composers will stop doing variations of some Chopin item is NEVER.

There is usually just one direction that film score composers generally go with Chopin - they eliminate all the glissades and retain only the 'mood' or tone notes (majors, minors, suspended 2's, fourths, maybe even sevenths/suspended sevenths) and you end up with this highly evocative, rather slow or syrupy melody.

And then if your ear can pick out the most essential notes ONLY, you can play on these as motifs even through just the 'atmosphere' or background sounds.

All the greatest musicians know how to do this:

probably the two most famous 'unlikely' musicians who do it/did it are Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix. I think both of them had this habit of messing around with the lyrical melody from the film 'Tammy Come Home' and turning it into their guitars solos in a multiplicity of forms - slow, VERY slow, INVERTED, backwards, missing notes.... All kinds of 're-formations' of basically the same melody.

These concepts and structural ideas can apply with the work of skilled - er, VERY skilled - writers.

 

[Desiremakesmeweak]

Probably the most obvious or striking comparison is to go watch one of the Chopin pieces played by Valentina Lisitsa, and then look for the same piece in a more 'commercial' or 'popular' version played by some other non-classical trained player...

Suddenly you will see the Grand Canyon that exists between the top-flight concert artiste and all the others.

Which is not to say there aren't jazz and rock and blues and even zydeco (or even harmonica!!!) players in the same league as classical musicians because there certainly are.

 

[Desiremakesmeweak]

Star Dust is as good a piece of musical composition as anything Rachmaninov did - which is saying a considerable thing, but it is true all the same.

When General Alexander (cause that's who it is) is meeting the Russian chick that Christopher Steel tried to tell everyone was his big 'scoop' (he got it off me and he got it right here on this site) I have the Nat King Cole version playing in the background as she silk flies over the edge of 'the garden wall,' as it were, to pick up the covert-dropped pistol.

https://www.literotica.com/s/yes-oculus-rift-sex


My background soundtrack for this story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjU6ZjrQulc

No pissing in the French Chateau hotel bedrooms however. Because that never happened. Everything else happened though; everything I SAID happened. And anything Christopher Steel said DIDN'T happen.

Christopher Steel is a bullshitter who works for Adnan Khashoggi and Tim Geithner.

And how you know I'm the real deal, is, that... ...Tim Geithner owns Crowdstrike. And Tim Geithner employs Carter Page too.


BOOM.


Cue music. Which music? I was thinking the theme by Hans Zimmer from this year's smash hit movie Wonder Woman, played by the incomparable Tina Guo. (The Chinese chick with the electric cello between her thighs, that one).

 

[AwkwardMD]

It's kind of disingenuous to say "I NEVER SEE PEOPLE ASKING HOW TO BE BETTER IN THE AUTHORS HANGOUT" since that kind of thread should go in the Feedback forum. People do ask for feedback for the sake of improvement all the time.

 

[SamScribble]

Many good writers are also half-decent musicians.

For several years I played in a pretty successful jazz group. The drummer and the bassist were both better than average writers. They understood pace. They understood shape. They knew how to engage the listener. And they knew how to surprise the listener. Unfortunately, neither of them was very good at staying alive.

 

[SamScribble]

Another thought, James:

Isn’t there a contradiction – well, a conflict anyway – between ‘I've never seen ‘How can I write better at AH’ and ‘LIT is McDonalds of erotica’?

Go ahead: tell me how I can write better. I can think of several suggestions that you might have. But aren’t they all going to be about how I can write better for Lit? My bet is that you don’t know what I write in my ‘other life’. Also, I’m not unhappy with what I post on Lit. OK, I get attacks of the one bombers. And I’d rather that I didn’t. But that’s about them; not me. A lot of what I write is, to some extent, experimental. And there is not that much that falls flat on its face – even on ‘the McDonald’s of erotica'.

Just sayin’.

 

[NOIRTRASH]

Another thought, James:

Isn’t there a contradiction – well, a conflict anyway – between ‘I've never seen ‘How can I write better at AH’ and ‘LIT is McDonalds of erotica’?

Go ahead: tell me how I can write better. I can think of several suggestions that you might have. But aren’t they all going to be about how I can write better for Lit? My bet is that you don’t know what I write in my ‘other life’. Also, I’m not unhappy with what I post on Lit. OK, I get attacks of the one bombers. And I’d rather that I didn’t. But that’s about them; not me. A lot of what I write is, to some extent, experimental. And there is not that much that falls flat on its face – even on ‘the McDonald’s of erotica.

Just sayin’.

I know little of this life or any of your 9 lives. I'm not curious of people, by nature, and am constantly surprised when old friends die. I had no idea they were sick. I have no FACEBOOK friends, I almost never talk on the phone. Too much lying and other nonsense from all. I don't snoop. Trouble knows my address, as death does, and both fine me.

I spent yesterday studying adverbs. I discovered remocing them doesn't harm the prose. Ditto THAT and a few other words.

 

[NOIRTRASH]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6lpN3kiLck&list=RDS6lpN3kiLck

Interesting.

 

[NOIRTRASH]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FI1FVDH_AqQ

 

[Desiremakesmeweak]

Very funny. Quite a contrast.

 

[SimonDoom]

Max Steiner's King Kong soundtrack was revolutionary in its time, and it still sounds good. His GWTW is a little gushy for me, but the King Kong soundtrack is very modern. Steiner definitely was not just recapitulating something somebody else did with that score.